Year 2 Learning Challenge

Tomorrow the children will take home the Learning Challenge for this term.
Please join us in encouraging your children to complete as many elements of it as possible. This will allow them to further deepen their understanding of the learning taking place this term.
We look forward to seeing and celebrating the children's work.

Significant Person: William the Conqueror.

 

 

 

 

Poem: The Dragon on the Playground by Kenn Nesbitt.

There's a dragon on the playground
who descended from the skies.
He swooped down on the schoolyard
where he took us by surprise.

He leapt across the blacktop
in a single bounding stride,
erupting flames and lava
to incinerate the slide.

He reared his huge and scaly head
and flapped his leathery wings,
then set the soccer field ablaze
and blackened all the swings.

He cauterized the asphalt
with a sudden, fiery flash.
Then reeled upon the seesaw
and converted it to ash.

He melted all the monkey bars.
The sand was molten glass.
With nothing left to liquefy
he headed for our class.

I doubt we'll soon be rid of him
despite the fires he's set.
You see, our teacher likes him,
so he's now the teacher's pet.

Artist: Georgia O’Keefe. A sunflower from Maggie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

	Painting	Person	Poem
Basic	Copy the painting using a material of your choice.	Find out 5 facts about William the Conqueror.	Copy the poem in your neatest handwriting.
Advanced	Write a paragraph explaining what you like/dislike about the painting.	Write a letter asking him about the Battle of Hastings.	Write your own poem relating to the theme ‘Dungeons and Dragons’.
Deep	Use the image as stimulus for a “100 word challenge”.	Explain the significance of this person in History.	Write a poem which includes alliteration and rhyme.